Gandahar

Gandahar (1987)

‘In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed, and all its people massacred. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can’t be avoided will be.”

On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.

Date of release
1987-12-11
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (155)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Animation, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Director
René Laloux

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $370.7K
  • Budget: $5.5M
  • Earned 0.1× its budget
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Gandahar is a 1987 French animated science fantasy film written and directed by René Laloux, based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon's 1969 novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar.

Production

The animation was in colour and ran for 83 minutes. Production work was done by SEK Animation Studio of North Korea. The film is notable for its strange scenery and exotic flora, fauna, and bizarre inhabitants. The design was by the French comic book artist Caza.

A slightly altered English-language version credits Harvey Weinstein as director and Bob Weinstein as producer. It was released in 1988 through Miramax Films, with the translation revised by noted science fiction author Isaac Asimov. The English title Light Years is not a translation of the original title, but rather of the original tagline "Les Années lumière" ("The Light Years") as seen on the French poster.

The English version does not contain most of Yared's soundtrack for the original version of the film. New music created by the combined efforts of Jack Maeby, Bob Jewitt and Jim Klein was produced for certain sequences in the English-language version.

The scene late in the original version of the film in which Airelle and Sylvain are in the nest was cut for sexual content. In the uncut version, Sylvain is shown removing his shirt, later, he and Airelle are shown lying nude in the nest at night, seemingly after having been intimate with one another.

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